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10.
Challenge: Multiple Identities
Andy Law's Third Law
“The number of unique identifiers
assigned to an individual is never
less than the number of Institutions
involved in the study”
http://bioinformatics.roslin.ac.uk/lawslaws/
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P12047
X31045
GB:29384
http://rdf.ebi.ac.uk/resource/ch
embl/molecule/CHEMBL1642
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/co
mpound/inspect/CHEMBL1642

14.
In Data we Trust
How can we trust
the data we’ve got
back?
How can we ensure
that it hasn’t been
tampered on the
way?
Trusty URIs
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http://www.intelsat.com/wp-
content/uploads/2014/03/Red-padlock.jpg

15.
Contact Details
www.alasdairjggray.co.uk
A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk
@gray_alasdair
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“There is lots of data we all use every day, and it’s not part of the web. I
can see my bank statements on the web, and my photographs, and I can
see my appointments in a calendar. But can I see my photos in a calendar
to see what I was doing when I took them? Can I see bank statement lines
in a calendar?
No. Why not? Because we don’t have a web of data. Because data is
controlled by applications and each application keeps it to itself.”
Tim Berners-Lee